As I read it, the weakness was in the chip. The code passes unencrypted for a short piece of the bus, and the MIT guy tapped that signal. Unless MS designed the chip, it's nVidia's fault.
Thanks for the link. Someone gave me one of those awhile back, and I remembered the story. I put off looking for it and forgot all about it. Again, thanks.
I'm not so sure about the cost argument, at least in the shrinkwrap sense. When spending thousands on apps like CAD software another two hundred bucks for the OS is not important. TCO might be different, eventually.
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Wrong. Walmart dot com is selling PCs w/o Windows. Walmart the building isn't.
TRY "VIEW SOURCE" -- IT WORKED FOR ME!!!!
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7-11 for firing a cashier who disarmed a robber K-Mart (not that I've ever been, but still...) for refusing to sell firearms on September 11th and afterward All radio and television because I hate advertising Anything in the state of Arkansas, because they piss me off Willingham's (a barbecue place in town) for firing my favorite waitress because she stood up to the manager
Speaking of lying... In your first post on the topic, you said Since then, I only use the "Favorites" to get to Google whenever I'm using my Dad's machine, so that I don't get rebooted again.
In your reply to Sandman, you said But I have no way to really prove it; and I do not know if it happens all the time, I haven't been on that machine since then. (Emphasis added)
So, you were redirected by MS, which I agree is bad. The browser happened to crash when you typed in google instead of a fully qualified domain, which is bad. Had you stuck with that, I'd agree. Instead, you spin up a huge web of deceit that implicates MS as the source of all computational evil.
Well, that sucked. I just reconstructed two mailboxes and it wasn't there. I used to use Pegasus, and that crashed on me, so I switched to the mailbox in Opera. I suppose the conversation was in the Pegasus mailbox. I was really looking forward to reading it, too. Sorry about that.
Good point. I don't even know *why* I typed that. Visual Studio. To be fair, I don't use FoxPro at all, and I rarely touch Visual C++. I do get use out of VB, and InterDev, though the little I do in InterDev could as easily be done in Notepad. I suppose I ought to do more with VC++, but I've been lazing about instead of *working* on anything but some web and database stuff.
I don't watch TV. I don't listen to the radio. I don't buy CDs. Hell, I don't even use any form of filesharing, either. I'm just a boring lump, but I don't fill my head with advertising or other people's pockets with cash.
Sure, it is our government's job to promote the US's interests, but Peru is right to stand up to the pressure. Paying for software should take a back seat to paying for water and electricity. I think mandating Open Source is a bit much, but maybe that's what they have to do to keep their departments from deviating. I own and run MS products (Win2K, Win2K Server, XP Home, XP Pro, SQL Server 7.0, VB Studio 6.0, etc.) I like them. I haven't had any real pain from them. But I couldn't go buy them today. If I was Peru I'd want Free Software. But that's not what this is about. Peru didn't mandate Linux. They simply said all software must come with source, which effectively cuts out MS. It's an implicit endorsement of Open Source, but not an explicit one.
Someone, I believe you, had a sig that said something like "Don't use some drawn out, farfetched analogy to prove me wrong" To which someone replied, likening that statement to some farfetched thing. To which the owner of the sig replied "Thanks. Now I can link to this when someone asks me what my sig means."
Sure, it says that on the page. But the illustration is a stick of ram. Trust these guys to build a PC when they can't see the difference between a CPU and a DIMM?
There may be a difficulty finding boards that small that support a P4. There's also serious heat issues - generally, the slower the chip, the less heat is radiated. Price is probably a factor (most of this computer's reason to be is to look cool, not to be a speed demon). Heck, I don't even know if a P4 heatsink and fan would fit in that A1000 case.
I kinda miss the.sig about bizarro metaphors...do you still have the link to the bizarro metaphor the guy used to try to make his point about that.sig?
I'll look - it was on my (then) work computer. I ftp'ed my mailbox out when I left, and haven't reconstructed it. I'll get back to you if I find it. Actually, I'll get back either way.
One day I saw a list of *must read* computer / programming books compiled by Steve McConnell. I had a brainfart and forgot he wrote CC. I emailed him and told him that I loved his list, had read a good portion of it, and was copying the rest down to look for. Then I recommended he look into a fantastic book called "Code Complete." Just before I hit 'send' I realized what I'd done. So I changed the text, but told him what happened. He sent back a nice reply that I probably still have around here somewhere.
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As I read it, the weakness was in the chip. The code passes unencrypted for a short piece of the bus, and the MIT guy tapped that signal. Unless MS designed the chip, it's nVidia's fault.
Not me!
Thanks for the link. Someone gave me one of those awhile back, and I remembered the story. I put off looking for it and forgot all about it.
Again, thanks.
Well, most efficent aside from supertankers and barges. Of course, not everyone has a port handy.
I'm not so sure about the cost argument, at least in the shrinkwrap sense. When spending thousands on apps like CAD software another two hundred bucks for the OS is not important. TCO might be different, eventually.
Wrong. Walmart dot com is selling PCs w/o Windows. Walmart the building isn't.
The Alto?
I didn't notice you mention it.
Very cool. A quick bit of proofreading: Oversizerd holes in the bracket should be Oversized...
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7-11 for firing a cashier who disarmed a robber
K-Mart (not that I've ever been, but still...) for refusing to sell firearms on September 11th and afterward
All radio and television because I hate advertising
Anything in the state of Arkansas, because they piss me off
Willingham's (a barbecue place in town) for firing my favorite waitress because she stood up to the manager
Speaking of lying...
In your first post on the topic, you said Since then, I only use the "Favorites" to get to Google whenever I'm using my Dad's machine, so that I don't get rebooted again.
In your reply to Sandman, you said But I have no way to really prove it; and I do not know if it happens all the time, I haven't been on that machine since then . (Emphasis added)
So, you were redirected by MS, which I agree is bad. The browser happened to crash when you typed in google instead of a fully qualified domain, which is bad. Had you stuck with that, I'd agree. Instead, you spin up a huge web of deceit that implicates MS as the source of all computational evil.
Well, that sucked. I just reconstructed two mailboxes and it wasn't there.
I used to use Pegasus, and that crashed on me, so I switched to the mailbox in Opera.
I suppose the conversation was in the Pegasus mailbox. I was really looking forward to reading it, too.
Sorry about that.
Good point. I don't even know *why* I typed that. Visual Studio. To be fair, I don't use FoxPro at all, and I rarely touch Visual C++. I do get use out of VB, and InterDev, though the little I do in InterDev could as easily be done in Notepad. I suppose I ought to do more with VC++, but I've been lazing about instead of *working* on anything but some web and database stuff.
I don't watch TV. I don't listen to the radio. I don't buy CDs. Hell, I don't even use any form of filesharing, either. I'm just a boring lump, but I don't fill my head with advertising or other people's pockets with cash.
...this is wrong.
Sure, it is our government's job to promote the US's interests, but Peru is right to stand up to the pressure.
Paying for software should take a back seat to paying for water and electricity.
I think mandating Open Source is a bit much, but maybe that's what they have to do to keep their departments from deviating.
I own and run MS products (Win2K, Win2K Server, XP Home, XP Pro, SQL Server 7.0, VB Studio 6.0, etc.) I like them. I haven't had any real pain from them. But I couldn't go buy them today. If I was Peru I'd want Free Software.
But that's not what this is about. Peru didn't mandate Linux. They simply said all software must come with source, which effectively cuts out MS. It's an implicit endorsement of Open Source, but not an explicit one.
Someone, I believe you, had a sig that said something like "Don't use some drawn out, farfetched analogy to prove me wrong"
To which someone replied, likening that statement to some farfetched thing. To which the owner of the sig replied "Thanks. Now I can link to this when someone asks me what my sig means."
Sure, it says that on the page. But the illustration is a stick of ram. Trust these guys to build a PC when they can't see the difference between a CPU and a DIMM?
There may be a difficulty finding boards that small that support a P4. There's also serious heat issues - generally, the slower the chip, the less heat is radiated. Price is probably a factor (most of this computer's reason to be is to look cool, not to be a speed demon). Heck, I don't even know if a P4 heatsink and fan would fit in that A1000 case.
I kinda miss the .sig about bizarro metaphors...do you still have the link to the bizarro metaphor the guy used to try to make his point about that .sig?
I'll look - it was on my (then) work computer. I ftp'ed my mailbox out when I left, and haven't reconstructed it.
I'll get back to you if I find it. Actually, I'll get back either way.
I actually own a book ( _Amerika_ ) that says "Kafka's first and funniest novel" on the back cover.
One day I saw a list of *must read* computer / programming books compiled by Steve McConnell. I had a brainfart and forgot he wrote CC.
I emailed him and told him that I loved his list, had read a good portion of it, and was copying the rest down to look for. Then I recommended he look into a fantastic book called "Code Complete."
Just before I hit 'send' I realized what I'd done. So I changed the text, but told him what happened. He sent back a nice reply that I probably still have around here somewhere.
Taco? That you?
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